Hegseth tells Posobiec the Hasan firing-squad execution will be 'public'; a Defense Department official says it will be livestreamed; Vance says he won't watch

On Thursday 2026-10-08 (publication date; the interview itself was recorded or aired Wednesday 10-07 or Thursday 10-08, outlets differ), Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Jack Posobiec that “we’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public, because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things.” Asked about Nidal Hasan’s final requests he said “Don’t care. We’ll see him on Dec. 3rd.” He also placed the execution at 1 p.m. at Fort Hood, the hour of the 2009 shooting. The same day an unnamed Defense Department official told NBC and Al Jazeera that the execution would be livestreamed; no named Pentagon official or written release was found, and no platform was identified.

Reaction through 2026-10-09: Vice President Vance said “if it’s all through livestream, I’m not going to be watching it”; Trump, asked by ABC whether he wanted it streamed, said “They’re making a determination about that” (both 10-09). Al Jazeera reported the UN rights office told AFP a livestream would be “tantamount to a public execution” and Sen. Chris Murphy called public executions “medieval”. CNN (10-10 headline, text not retrieved) reported the Army was caught off guard by the order. Survivors’ reactions were mixed per ABC (not retrieved; no survivor is named here).

Primary gap: the Human Events page is the interview outlet’s own write-up, not a video transcript; the audio/video was not reviewed. Hegseth’s text is therefore as the outlet quoted it.